From our affiliate office in Madison, Wisconsin... it was announced today that two of the top public interest groups, Consumer Reports WebWatch and the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), have together launched Full Frontal Scrutiny, a Web site created to expose the designs of nefarious hidden persuaders on the Web and in mainstream media. Located at frontgroups.org, the site's purpose is to shed light on "front groups," i.e. organizations that feign a particular agenda, while hiding or otherwise obscuring their identity, memberships, sponsorships and true agenda.

Full Frontal Scrutiny will publish selected content from WebWatch and from the CMD's SourceWatch site, as well as aggregate news about front groups from other reliable sources. The site debuts today with an investigation of front group activity in the popular online information resource Wikipedia.

The joint venture is an extension of the mission of both groups. WebWatch creates guidelines for Web site credibility. CMD's nationally renowned SourceWatch site has indexed and reported on hundreds of organizations whose offline or online presence fails the transparency test, by omission, obfuscation, or deception.

Sheldon Rampton, Research Director for CMD warned, "Fakers, phonies and front groups beware -- you will be exposed!"

Full Frontal Scrutiny will focus on front groups in the health, personal finance, electronics and Internet, automotive, home, environment, travel and other topic areas of particular interest.

Can we be honest? Totally between you and me? I am absolutely sporting falsies on the first date. To tell the truth, Mother Nature has been kind (modestly). But seriously, a little enhancement to the eyes and boobulars goes a long way as to first impressions. Besides, statistically speaking, NO ONE is going to take a base let alone hit a homer on the first pitch.

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